FOR WOMEN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17861, 6 August 1918, Page 3

FOR WOMEN.

NEWS AND NOTES. Miss Fulton (North Canterbury) is visiting Timaru. Mr ami Mrs J. R, Blues (Diinedin) arrived in Cliristchurch on Sunday and are staying at the Clarendon. Mrs .A. S. Elworthy (Holme Station), has returned to bar home, alter a holiday spent in Cliristchurch. Mrs and Mrs Moorhouse (Timaru) have come to live in Cliristchurch, and are staying at Warner's for a while. Mr L. F. Fetch and Miss Fetch (Feilding) arrived in Ohristchnrch on F'.mday and left yesterday on a motor tour, of Canterbury. Mrs Howard Tripp, who has been in Christcliurch for some time, is now visiting friends in Hastings. Miss Howell has accompanied her.

Mrs A. S. Taylor, Knowles Street, has returned to Christcliurch from a long holiday spent in Wellington with her mother, Mrs West.

Members of. the various branches of the Women's National Reserve who provided afternoon tea> for returned soldiers at the association's rooms last week were:—Mrs and Miss Banks, Mrs S. R. 'Webb and Miss D. Webb, Miss 1. Chamberlain, Miss B. Withell, Mrs and Miss Ferrier, Mrs Tomlinson, Mrs Banks, Mrs Ballin, Mrs Boulton, Mrs Wilkes, Miss Blackbourne, Miss Cowlishaw, Miss Mary Cowlishaw and Miss Webley. There was a large attendance on Sunday afternoon, when Miss Lilian Harper and a number of her friends entertained the men with a very bright musical programme.

Mrs F. W. Hope gave a very pleasant evening at her residence in Chancellor Street, Shirley, on Saturday evening, when Mr Hope, on behalf of the Kliaki Girls, presented Mr W. T. Redman with a. pair of suede motor gloves, in recognition of his services in coaching the Khaki Girls for the series of concerts which they are giving. Home Dressmaking is made an easy matter, with smart style and good lit assured, through the Bpecial service which Ballantyue's have arranged for, whereby ladies buying their materials at Ballantyne's may, for a small charge, have them cut out, tacked and fitted ready for home-sewing. X VIOLET DAY. The first meeting in connection with Violet Lay was heid in the Art Gallery yesterday, 'i'ne following committee was appointed:—Miss Rose Tatmrt (in tho chair), Mesdames Boyle, Deans, Dalgeiy, Lane, Tobin, Betnell, Laurie, Cordy, Holland, Knight, Bean, It. Anderson, Lee, keceds. Blacinvell C. W. lldid, G. L. Donaldson, F. C. Raphael, and Misses Bathgate and Mary Air G. L. Dom,:dson was appointed honorary organiser. It was decided Uuat Violet Day be held either on September 4 or September 11, and thafc tho proceeds be donated to tho Red Cross Convalescent Homo. <

THE LATE MRS HENRY OVERTON

AN APPRECIATION BY A FRIEND

On Monday morning, at the Waimain Cemetery, Fendauou. at a tuneral conducted by the iiev Canou iiamiiion, tne body of Sarah Rebecca Overton was laid to lest. The ceremony was confined to relatives or very old friends, while a wealth of iiowers and wreaths conveyed the regard of many not present. A wide circle of friends will mourn the death of Mrs Overton, which occurred on Friday last at her residence, '*' Chatsworth," Fendalton. Mrs Overton was the daughter of a well-known Presbyterian minister the late Kev John Macky, M.A., of Otahuhu, Auckland, where she was born in 1856. Her oary married life was spent at Meadowbank, Ellesmere, and later in Hawke's Bay, finally settling down at FendaJton, where, unfortunately, owing to heart trouble she had to live a very retired life. To those who knew her intimately she embodied the ideal woman. She lov-ed and served her family with keen devotion and joyous self-sacrifice. Her degnicy and gracious ways made her a great favourite, and those who enjoyed her hospitality will not readily

forget her kindliness and charm- Possessing as she did a heart. a cultured mind, and a beautiful and chnrmintf personality we mourn the passing of one whose memory will ever be a delight to all who knew her, and our sympathy goes out to those who have lost a model wife, a loving mother and a faithful friend.